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Deaths on February 09

1555 : John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1567 : Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 : Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1588 : Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies
1617 : Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44
1640 : Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1670 : Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
1675 : Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, buried
1740 : Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
1751 : Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82
1765 : Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1811 : Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies
1812 : Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1817 : Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1824 : Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1846 : Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1849 : Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1860 : Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63
1874 : Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1881 : Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1891 : Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
1906 : Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
1916 : Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
1916 : Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
1917 : Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
1918 : Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
1924 : Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1932 : Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1935 : Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
1936 : Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
1938 : Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1943 : ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
1945 : George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
1945 : Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1948 : Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65
1949 : Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
1952 : Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies
1957 : Mikl¢s Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
1960 : Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
1961 : Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1964 : Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
1966 : Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1968 : Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
1968 : Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
1969 : Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Oly-gold 1928), dies at 68
1969 : [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 : Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1974 : Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
1975 : Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82
1977 : Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1977 : Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1977 : Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1978 : Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1979 : C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies
1980 : Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106
1981 : Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 : Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
1984 : Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1993 : David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1993 : Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
1993 : Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
1994 : Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
1994 : Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
1994 : Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
1995 : David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
1995 : J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 : Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
1996 : Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80
1996 : Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44
1996 : Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80
1996 : Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86
1996 : Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74
1997 : Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53
1998 : Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95

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